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Jennifer Castle - Angels Of Death

LP: £21.99

CD: £12.99

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A sublime meditation on mortality and memory, ghosts and grief, Angels of Death ca
sts a series of spells against forgetting and
finality, in the form of mystic
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minimalist country
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soul torch songs about writing, time travel, and spectral visitations. Castle wrote and
recorded this breathtaking follow
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up to the acclaimed Pink City (2014)
in a 19th century church near the shores of Lake Erie, where her
family also lived and experienced a constellation of losses that inhabit these bruised musings. The title track finds Castle
wrestling, like
Jacob, with the radiant angels of death “hanging i
n the room,” while she attempts to navigate, or write, her way through the “loopholes
and catacombs of time”
—
the line is borrowed, with permission, from fellow Canadian poet Al Purdy
—
like Ariadne in the labyrinth, with
her spool of silver thread.